Module: Quora::Auth

Included in:
Client
Defined in:
lib/quora/auth.rb

Constant Summary collapse

QUORA_URI = 
"http://www.quora.com"

Instance Method Summary collapse

Instance Method Details

#login(user, password) ⇒ Object 



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# File 'lib/quora/auth.rb', line 12

def (user, password)
  endpoint = URI.parse(QUORA_URI)

  http = Net::HTTP.new(endpoint.host, endpoint.port)
  resp = http.get('/login/')
  cookie = resp["set-cookie"]

  # TODO: improve this rubbish
  # get formkey value
  start = resp.body.index("Q.formkey")
  formkey = resp.body[start..start+200].split("\"")[1]

  # get window value
  start = resp.body.index("webnode2.windowId")
  window = resp.body[start..start+200].split("\"")[1]

  # get __vcon_json value
  start = resp.body.index("InlineLogin")
  vcon_json = resp.body[start..start+200]
  start = vcon_json.index("live")
  vcon_json = vcon_json[start..-1]
  vcon_json = vcon_json.split("\"")[0]
  vcon_json = vcon_json.split(":")
  vcon_json.map! { |value| "\"#{value}\"" }

  vcon_json = "[#{vcon_json.join(",")}]"
  vcon_json = CGI::escape(vcon_json)

  user = CGI::escape(user)
  password = CGI::escape(password)

  body = "json=%7B%22args%22%3A%5B%22#{user}%22%2C%22#{password}%22%2Ctrue%5D%2C%22kwargs%22%3A%7B%7D%7D&formkey=#{formkey}&window_id=#{window}&__vcon_json=#{vcon_json}&__vcon_method=do_login"

  headers = {
    "Content-Type"     => "application/x-www-form-urlencoded",
    "X-Requested-With" => "XMLHttpRequest",
    "Accept"           => "application/json, text/javascript, */*",
    "Cookie"           => cookie,
    "User-Agent"       => "Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X 10_6_5; en-US) AppleWebKit/534.10 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/8.0.552.237 Safari/534.10",
    "Content-Length"   => body.length.to_s,
    "Accept-Charset"   => "ISO-8859-1,utf-8;q=0.7,*;q=0.3",
    "Accept-Language"  => "es-ES,es;q=0.8",
    "Accept-Encoding"  => "gzip,deflate,sdch",
    "Origin"           => "http://www.quora.com",
    "Host"             => "www.quora.com",
    "Referer"          => "http://www.quora.com/login/"
  }

  resp = http.post("/webnode2/server_call_POST", body, headers)

  if resp.code == "200"
    cookie
  else
    ""
  end
end